Chapter six hundred and twenty seventh surprise attack
This situation lasted until Huang Ding and others who boarded the ship returned. After hearing this situation, these young militants immediately came up with a crazy plan, that is: to surprise the Dutch colonizers' port - Da Yuan (today's Tainan
Anping).
Huang Qifa suddenly heard about this plan and thought it was too whimsical. Anping had been run by the Dutch colonists for so long. There were naval guns on the ships, forts on the port, and "Relanja" and "Chican City" around it.
These two fortresses, not to mention how many Dutch colonists were there, were so impregnable that they looked like they were attacking a stone with an egg.
Moreover, it was an area inhabited by Dutch colonists, and there were no visible people living there, so it was impossible to talk about lurking around or doing anything that could be done internally and externally.
But Huang Ding and others said otherwise. They analyzed that if it were a force attack or an attack from land, it would indeed be unable to do anything to these Dutch colonists. However, on the sea, which everyone thought was the most heavily defended, there was a big gap. Because the current Dutch colonists
The soldiers focused their attention on the land route, so they never expected the surprise attack from the sea by the Runing Army.
However, no matter how good the psychological analysis is, without a practical plan, it is just a blind man lighting a lamp - a waste of effort. So Huang Ding first drew a topographic map of the generals.
People who came out of the Runing Army have a very good habit. Whenever they arrive at a place, the first thing they do is observe the terrain. If it is a new place, they will at least draw a brief map and submit it to the Military Intelligence Bureau for archiving.
When Huang Ding and others were on Zheng Zhilong's ship, someone had also gone to Daguan with the ship, and they had already understood the topography of the port here. Besides, the Dutch colonists were not wary of Zheng Zhilong, and allowed them to go to Zheng Zhilong whenever the ship docked.
Zheng Zhilong's sailors went ashore for entertainment, so Huang Ding and others also had some knowledge of the situation on the shore. Therefore, they made a surprise attack plan based on this information.
The first thing is, of course, how to get to the port. Huang Ding and the others proposed that they should paddle a small wooden boat about ten miles away from Da Yuan until the port is invisible to the naked eye, and then swim and sneak in. For this reason, the best time for a surprise attack is in the middle of the night.
Of course, the closer the small wooden boat can be, the better. Swimmers can also swim shorter distances.
There are two problems: one is how to find the leader on the dark sea. But after everyone knows that the leader has a lighthouse, this problem is no longer a problem. All they have to do is follow the direction of the lighthouse!
The other is long-distance swimming. You must know that Taiwan is a subtropical sea area, and the water there is very cold at night. No matter how good the water quality is, if you can't stand the cold, you will get cramps and sink into the sea after just a few swims.
.Of course there is also the threat of dangerous marine life such as sharks.
The solution to this is also very simple. The only way is to strengthen training and conduct special training. As for sharks and other things, just rely on luck! Anyway, fighting is inherently dangerous.
The next step is how to carry out a surprise attack. Huang Ding and the others are not Stallone. It is impossible to use such a small number of people to turn the generals upside down. Therefore, the goal of the surprise attack is set very low. As long as the generals are confused. As long as
To cause panic among the Dutch colonists would have achieved the goal. The specific method was nothing more than murder and arson.
However, because of swimming, Huang Ding and the others could not carry long weapons, and the muskets were also afraid of water, so they needed to be well prepared.
Heavy and medium-sized firecrackers are no longer needed, so you can only choose handguns, and the weapons are thin and light daggers. In addition, a waterproof leather bag, handle gun and ammunition are specially sewn for each firegun.
They were all installed, which solved the problem of carrying the handgun. However, because of the time required to take it out, Huang Ding and the others were not able to use the handgun right away.
The last step is to evacuate. Generals lead troops to fight in order to ensure victory, but they also need to bring as many soldiers home safely as possible. Therefore, qualified generals must plan an escape route before each military operation. Of course
, we can’t understand the tricks played by those high-level experts, such as: last-ditch fight, burning the boat, etc., but they should have figured everything out before the war! How brave are the so-called high-level people!
Therefore, a general will never launch any military action that he knows will lead to death. In addition to morale considerations, there is also the issue of the commander's honor. Of course, there are exceptions to everything. Some people go crazy and all leaders and generals are incompetent.
The nation will launch some meaningless planes to ram warships, and then euphemistically call them "divine winds".
The Runing Army went for a surprise attack, not to die. Although the mission of the surprise attack was very dangerous, they must consider a retreat. And there was only one retreat, which was to seize the ships in the port and escape.
As preparation, those small wooden boats will also be waiting outside the port, ready to respond if the surprise attack fails. However, if this happens, the entire army of soldiers in the surprise attack will basically be wiped out.
The whole plan was like this. After that, the selection of personnel, preparation of equipment, simulation training, etc. were carried out in an orderly manner. After more than a month of preparation, Huang Ding and the others officially set off.
Although Huang Ding and the others went to the battlefield bravely, Huang Qifa knew that this plan was a narrow escape, and all these children might not come back.
"Okay! Get into the water now. Remember! Just do as you were trained. Protect the ponies. The fuel they carry is the most important. Daniel, you row back immediately. You are no longer needed here."
Huang Ding gave final instructions.
"But let us wait to pick you up." Daniel said immediately.
"If we can't grab the boat, do you think we can still swim across the boat?" Huang Ding said with a smile, "When daybreak comes, the boat in the port chases you out, and you won't be able to escape. Also, we can grab it.
We don’t plan to come back after we get the boat, so we go directly into the Yangtze River, otherwise, the boat will be stranded on the shore, and it will be returned to the red-haired ghost in vain. But no matter what, the red-haired ghost’s boat is also lost.”
"But Instructor Huang didn't arrange it like this?" Daniel said again.
"It's not like you don't know about Instructor Huang's mother-in-law? I'm commanding here, and everyone obeys me." Huang Ding paused, then said, "Tell Instructor Huang that I want to call him daddy. Stop talking and let's go!"
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"Plop", "plop", fifty soldiers jumped into the water one after another. Only one sailor grabbed a soldier who was about to make a surprise attack, and kept making offers to tempt him to change positions. Huang Ding shouted: "
Why are you still dawdling?" The soldier made a face to the sailor and jumped into the water with a plop. Seeing that everyone had set off, Huang Ding pulled the leather bag tied to his back and finally got into the water.
It wasn't until he watched Huang Ding and the others swimming away that Daniel ordered in a low voice: "Go back!" He glanced in the direction of the senior officers again and blessed in a low voice: "Wan Sheng!"
There are more than two dozen ships parked in the dark Damuan Port, and the outermost ship is obviously different from the Fu Ship and the Guangzhou Ship. This ship does not have more than four masts like the Fu Ship, but is simply
The two masts are exactly a Western-style sailing ship.
In fact, according to Western classification, this kind of ship cannot even be called a warship. It is at best an armed merchant ship. And on the open deck of this ship, you can clearly see that there are gun emplacements on the side of the ship, and on both sides.
More than a dozen artillery pieces of different sizes.
This brigantine is called "Lookout" and belongs to the Dutch East India Company. However, this ship is actually privately owned, and the owner is the captain of the ship, Ferreira. Just for the convenience of doing business in the Far East, he ships every year
It only costs management fees to be affiliated with the Dutch East India Company.
The ship is already loaded with cargo and will set sail early tomorrow morning for trade in Kyushu, Japan. That’s why the ship is parked at the outermost part of the port. After days of gambling and whoring, the sailors on the ship have also arrived early.
fell into sleep.
A sailor on the night watch on the deck was also dozing off. This is a safe place for senior officers, so one person was assigned to watch the night on the ship. But now the captain is also resting in the cabin, so why not take the opportunity to be lazy?
ah?
There were a few soft noises on the side of the ship, which were several flying boats being thrown up, but the sailor on night watch was sleeping deeply and did not notice the movement at all. The bow and stern of the ship were hung up to prevent the ships from colliding with each other.
There was a lantern, so the view on the deck was still very clear. Therefore, when more than twenty black figures climbed onto the ship along the ropes that they had grasped, they immediately saw the sailor leaning in the corner.
Several people crouched down and touched over quietly. They covered the sailor's mouth and wiped his neck with a knife. A fountain of blood immediately spurted out from the sailor's neck and he fell to the deck twitching.
The two dozen people had a clear division of labor. A few of them continued to patrol the deck with their waists bent. The others opened the cloth bags on their backs, took out their blunderbuss, tightened the ammunition, and lit the match. Then they immediately
They surrounded the entrance to the cabin and were ready for battle.
Seeing that his soldiers were all ready, Huang Ding took a few people to the side of the ship to observe. He ordered the people around him: "When you see those ships on fire, kill the red-haired ghosts in the cabin. And let them go."
The ship immediately hoisted anchor and sail, and we will leave here as soon as they come back."
Huang Ding's surprise attack was: first seize a ship to prepare a retreat, then burn a few ships, then let the people who burned the ships return to the retreat ship, and finally leave the harbor.
This moment seemed extremely long, and people on the side of the ship were waiting anxiously. Suddenly, someone on the closest ship held up a lit match and drew several circles. The soldiers around Huang Ding excitedly shouted: "Huang Lian
Long, they went up."
But Huang Ding didn't relax his brows. They planned to burn two ships, so he immediately turned his attention to the other planned ship. As time passed by, Huang Ding felt that his lips were wet.
He was about to be bitten to pieces. When he was almost suffocating, he waited until someone on the ship was drawing a circle with a match rope. He immediately breathed a sigh of relief and ordered: "Send the signal!" (To be continued...)
